Use tale in a sentence
Sentences ending with tale
- Your generous heart, your love of truth, and your beautiful reverence for the gods, your courage and heroism, in short, every thing that I love and honor in you, I shall give to the hero of my tale. [10]
- A messenger carried word to Szczepanik in the pavilion, and one could see the distressed amazement in his face as he listened to the tale. [5]
- Nor was it without great surprise and much speculation on Quilp's probable motives, nor without many bitter comments on Dick Swiveller's folly, that his friend received the tale. [12]
- The rabble of whom he had thought so scornfully, what a transformation seemed to have been wrought in them by the power of the Most High, since he had listened to old Eliab's tale! [10]
- Then he repeated what he had heard while listening outside of her tent, and her glance confirmed the tale. [10]
- But the Gaul was not to be seen; so Dido, interrupted by sobs, began the melancholy tale. [10]
- But I am wandering from my tale! [10]
- My book is type-written and ready for print--"Pudd'nhead Wilson-a Tale. [5]
- Evidently Natasha needed to tell that painful yet joyful tale. [2]
- Well, you hearken to my tale. [11]
Short sentences using tale
- No tale, no money. [6]
Sentences containing tale two or more times
- Before the book was half finished those three were taking things almost entirely into their own hands and working the whole tale as a private venture of their own--a tale which they had nothing at all to do with, by rights. [5]
- No--that is a thought which comes later; in the beginning he is only proposing to tell a little tale, a very little tale, a six-page tale. [5]
- They require that the episodes of a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it. [5]
- They require that the author shall make the reader feel a deep interest in the personages of his tale and in their fate; and that he shall make the reader love the good people in the tale and hate the bad ones. [5]
- He seemed to take no interest in Trafford's remarks, nor in the tale that Shangi the Indian had told them; though Shangi and his tale were both sufficiently uncommon to justify attention. [11]
- And I have noticed another thing: that as the short tale grows into the long tale, the original intention (or motif) is apt to get abolished and find itself superseded by a quite different one. [5]
- And I have noticed another thing: that as the short tale grows into the long tale, the original intention (or motif) is apt to get abolished and find itself superseded by a quite different one. [5]
- But as the Deerslayer tale is not a tale, and accomplishes nothing and arrives nowhere, the episodes have no rightful place in the work, since there was nothing for them to develop. [5]
More example sentences with the word tale in them
- I will tell you the brief tale of two lives. [11]
- I could tell you a tale of their folly! [10]
- None has ever yet returned to tell the sad tale of their fate. [5]
- He seemed to wonder that I was goin' to Pipi Valley; and when I had finished my tale he said: 'Well, I must tell you that I am not good company for you. [11]
- The King conversed with these --he had made it a point, from the beginning, to instruct himself for the kingly office by questioning prisoners whenever the opportunity offered --and the tale of their woes wrung his heart. [5]
- I hope you will illustrate this tale considerably. [5]
- Many a reader who wanted to read a tale through was not able to do it because of delays on account of the weather. [5]
- The tale of which the title is given at the beginning of this section had been written several years before the date of its publication. [6]
- They require that when the author describes the character of a personage in his tale, the conduct and conversation of that personage shall justify said description. [5]
- Well, one day when I was not around, one of these people came along--it was a she one, this time--and told a tale of the usual pattern. [5]
- Hardly a month went by without one of these tramps arriving; and generally loaded with a tale about some princess or other wanting help to get her out of some far-away castle where she was held in captivity by a lawless scoundrel, usually a giant. [5]
- So long as we were on the Nile, I would not intrude my tale upon you; that ancient river has a wonderful power of compelling to silence and quiet contemplation. [10]
- If we die, we die clinging to our tattered rights, and our blood alone shall tell the mournful tale of a murdered daughter and a ruined father. [5]
- But the tale was told in after days that one of his first actions in St. Louis was of this nature. [9]
- Perhaps the tale was the more impressive because of Crozier's deep baritone voice, capable, as it was, of much modulation, yet, except when. [11]
- When the tale was finished the Milesian did not attempt to conceal his strong disapprobation, and told Zopyrus that his most unseasonable love of fighting might be followed by the saddest consequences. [10]
- How hard it was at this distance of time to tell the world the tale, and to be forced to prove it by Philip's letters. [11]
- They were a vain and boastful company of heroes when the tale was done. [5]
- After her commanding tones Hannah's tale sounded as soft as a song. [10]
- The wondering shepherds told their breathless tale Of the bright choir that woke the sleeping vale; Told how the skies with sudden glory flamed; Told how the shining multitude proclaimed "Joy, joy to earth! [6]
- The man who told it said he could furnish the particulars up to a certain point only, because that was as much of the tale as he knew. [5]
- He himself had told his tale to the soldiers: how he had heard the baker and the Frenchman talking at the shop in the Rue d'Egypte. [11]
- She was anxious to write of things she had known and seen; and among the number was the West Yorkshire character, for which any tale laid among the Luddites would afford full scope. [14]
- Truth held me to the full, ludicrous tragedy of the tale, to the cheap character of my old Colonel's undertaking, to the incident of the drum, to the conversation in my room. [9]
- He had come to study French government in New Caledonia, to gauge the extent of the menace that the convict question bore towards Australia, and to tell his tale to Australia, and to such other countries as would listen. [11]
- Thus it came to pass that I did I not take the time of Hadrian for the background of a tale till after I had dealt with the still later period of the early monastic move in "Homo Sum. [10]
- And he came to me with no tale of having been outwitted by a stripling. [9]
- Thou wouldst go to Kaid and tell him thy affrighted tale. [11]
- But Mary, faithful to its lightest word, Kept in her heart the sayings she had heard, Till the dread morning rent the Temple's veil, And shuddering Earth confirmed the wondrous tale. [6]
- A pain came to Guida's heart as she read the flowing tale of his buoyant love. [11]
- When you come to glance at the tale you will recollect it--it is as common and familiar as the Tar Baby. [5]
- There were passwords to give at the door, there was the tale of the journey to tell to the door- keeper. [11]
- Presently Dicky listened to as sombre a tale as ever was told in the darkest night. [11]
- No--that is a thought which comes later; in the beginning he is only proposing to tell a little tale; a very little tale; a six-page tale. [5]
- He knew that this tale redounded to the glory of our arms and so one had to pretend not to doubt it. [2]
- In any case, this tale has no claim to be called a historical novel. [11]
- Well, I discover, this morning, that this tale is written in that small hand. [5]
- I always admire this art by which the accomplished story-teller lets his listener drag the reluctant tale of the marvelous from him, and makes you in a manner responsible for its improbability. [4]
- I thought that they would comfort you, and teach you to love the sublime Being whose exemplary life and pathetic death are no longer unknown to you, since Johanna told you the tale. [10]
- He wondered if they would believe the marvellous tale he should tell when he got home, or if they would shake their heads, and say his overtaxed imagination had at last upset his reason. [5]
- The chiefest of these he "laid by the heels," as usual, and the others confessed and told the singular tale we have outlined. [4]
- Haymaking was beginning, the wild strawberries were reddening among the clover, and in her garden, apples had followed the buds on the trees beneath which Philip had told his fateful tale of love. [11]
- The tale and the tiresome fashion of its telling amused him. [5]
- The moral of the tale was to be kindness to animals. [4]
- He soon knew the tale of Ranulph's misfortunes, but he had not yet been told of his present plans when there came a quick footstep, and Carterette was at her father's side. [11]
- It is in the tale of our people. [11]
- But, after all, the tale must have proved readable as a story to account for the large number of editions which it has reached. [6]
- Then he remembered the tale he had heard. [11]
- Do you know the tale about him and Count Markov? [2]
- Whether to tell the story of men that have lived and of events that have happened, or to create the characters and invent the incidents of an imaginary tale be the higher task, we need not stop to discuss. [6]
- The more distant the scene, the more uncertain the reflection; and so it must needs be with this tale, which will take you back to even twenty years before the century began. [11]
- Let us have the rest of your tale. [9]
- They require that the personages of a tale shall confine themselves to possibilities and let miracles alone; or, if they venture a miracle, the author must so plausibly set it forth as to make it look possible and reasonable. [5]
- They require that the personages in a tale, both dead and alive, shall exhibit a sufficient excuse for being there. [5]
- They require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others. [5]
- The identity of the other tale is uncertain. [5]
- I was in the midst of this tale when I happened to look some rods away to the other edge of the clearing, and there was a bear! [4]
- As soon as the host of The Mirror heard this tale, he minded him of that strange, dark man and, when that way-farer came not home to his inn, he made report thereof to the judges. [10]
- My discontent with the futile end of the tale as I originally knew it and saw it was justified. [11]
- The captain of the frigate tried severities; but the fisherman stuck to his tale, and the light burned on as before-- a lantern stuck upon a pole. [11]
- Looking quickly from the fire to the face of the Honourable and back again earnestly, as if the full force of what was required came to him, he said: "We shall get the perspective better if we put the tale in the third person. [11]
- He thrilled at the direct simplicity of the tale. [11]
- They require that the characters in a tale shall be so clearly defined that the reader can tell beforehand what each will do in a given emergency. [5]
- The dome of the Capitol seemed to float like a bubble, and to be as unsubstantial as the genii edifices in the Arabian tale. [4]
- No need of the as yet undreamed-of telegraph; the tale flew from man to man, from group to group, from house to house, with little less than telegraphic speed. [5]
- His mention of the "caves" in the next is another reference to "The Canvasser's Tale. [5]
- What a pity that Zekle, who courted Huldy over the apples she was peeling, could not have made love as the bucolic youth does, when "Every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale! [6]
- I'm the fellah that tole one day The tale of the won'erful one-hoss-shay. [6]
- So it was that she seldom went to church at all; but it was not because of this that her ideas of right and wrong were quite individual and not conventional, as the tale of the matrimonial deserter will show. [11]
- Are you one that has lived to tell the tale? [11]
- It seems curious that Canton should make a second mistake and refuse it again, but publishers were wary in those days, and even the newspaper success of the Frog story did not tempt him to venture it as the title tale of a book. [5]
- The first witness testifies that when 'this most beautiful Truth first dawned on him' he had 'nearly all the ills that flesh is heir to;' that those he did not have he thought he had--and thus made the tale about complete. [5]
- The first witness testifies that when "this most beautiful Truth first dawned on him" he had "nearly all the ills that flesh is heir to"; that those he did not have he thought he had--and this made the tale about complete. [5]
- I's gwine to tell you de tale, en cut it jes as short as I kin, en den I'll tell you what you's got to do. [5]
- He could not tell the story of his overhearing, for why had not Barouche told the tale? [11]
- But she must tell her tale. [11]
- It was a tale which the author of it may possibly have completed satisfactorily, and if he really had that good fortune I would like to know what the ending was. [5]
- And when the tale was told he said that succour should come to them from the south by the hand of the Scarlet Hunter, that the nation sleeping there should no more be disturbed by their moaning. [11]
- He said the tale was current in Louisville years ago. [5]
- I have a tale to tell now, which has not as yet been in print. [5]
- How many a tale their music tells Of youth, and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime. [5]
- Children tell the tale of the strong man who bore Cleopatra in a sack through the palace portals. [10]
- Such is the tale of the drama which began with an inconsequential quarrel in Vienna in the spring of 1898, and came near ending as a tragedy in the spring of 1904. [5]
- Thus ended the tale of poor Gertrude; but before I had half told it my wrath had cooled. [10]
- There is no tale of mystery and fanaticism and daring I would not believe if a Spaniard is the hero of it, and it is not necessary either that he should have the high-sounding name of Bodadilla or Ojeda. [4]
- Rameses related the tale of his fight at Kadesh, and the high-priest of Heliopolis observed In later times the poets will sing of thy deeds. [10]
- All through this tale my heart beat higher; I secretly hoped that peradventure my brothers had come home with Gotz, and were hiding themselves away, only for some reason privy to themselves. [10]
- In the Canterbury Tale it gives account of King Alfred on his way to the shrine of Thomas Bucket. [5]
- It is a tale in the Gulistan, that a king placed his son with a preceptor, and said, "This is your son; educate him in the same manner as your own. [4]
- So, on the tale I dare, Your "hush! [11]
- In telling this tale I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. [7]
- But what a tale he--not yet thirty--now related! [10]
- And so the tale goes on. [5]
- That is the tale as it was told to me by an ex-Scientist. [5]
- I'll tell my tale and speak my mind, I pledge you, sir. [11]
- But the Deerslayer tale accomplishes nothing and arrives in the air. [5]
- Having finished his tale about the enchanting Polish lady, the captain asked Pierre if he had ever experienced a similar impulse to sacrifice himself for love and a feeling of envy of the legitimate husband. [2]
- It was a tale about a camel-driver that had lost his camel, and he come along in the desert and met a man, and says: "Have you run across a stray camel to-day? [5]
- Come again after sunset, but you must expect to hear no pleasant tale. [10]
- I had a sufficiently hard time with that tale, because it changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it--a most embarrassing circumstance. [5]
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